2:10 PM.Listeners in the Whakatane region might have been able to see plumes of white smoke issuing from their neighbourhood volcano this morning. GeoNet have confirmed that White Island erupted for about 10… Read moreAudio

2:18 PM.Auckland schoolteacher Tracey Hand is fundraising to buy an elephant in Thailand. But she's got no plans to move it home to Blockhouse Bay once she's paid for it! Tracey tell us project elephant… Read moreAudio

3:09 PM.Australian photographer Louise Hawson is creator of the blog 52 Suburbs, where she explored an ordinary suburb of Sydney once a week for a year and wrote about it. Now she's gone global with this… Read moreAudio

4:07 PM.Topics - Yesterday news broke of dairy products from the West Coast being contaminated with nitrate. And we also received an email from a listener suggesting Canterbury also has a high proportion of… Read moreAudio

4:33 PM.Topics - Do you overshare or under-share on Facebook? New statistics show ACC has paid out over 64 million dollars towards rugby injuries in the last year. The GSCB bill will have its third reading… Read moreAudio

2:10 The White Island Eruption - GNS Volcanologist Steven Sherburn - Listeners in the Whakatane region might have been able to see plumes of white smoke issuing from their neighbourhood volcano this morning. GeoNet have confirmed that White Island erupted for about 10 minutes at around twenty past ten. The column of steam produced by the eruption rose about 2 kilometres above the island.

2:20 Project Elephant Rescue - Tracey Hand - How many bars of chocolate does it take to buy an elephant? Auckland schoolteacher Tracey Hand is on track to find out, as she fundraises to buy an elephant in Thailand.

3:10 Our feature guest is Australian photographer, Louise Hawson - creator of the blog, 52 Suburbs, where she explored an ordinary suburb of Sydney once a week for a year and wrote about it. Now she's gone global with this format - and she's published 52 Suburbs Around the World - totally untrendy areas of great cities.

3:30 In today's Asian Report: Lynda Chanwai-Earle is in Auckland to find out how a multicultural playgroup is a godsend for refugee and new migrant families.

4:06 David Slack and Tony Doe are on The Panel today - we'll talk about the nitrates in the South Island soil and the performance enhancers - accidentally apparently - inside Jesse Ryder. We'll ask if you're over-sharing or under-sharing on Facebook. ACC forks out for tens of millions of dollars for sports injuries, which you'd assume include repeat injuries for joints and bones already strained and broken, and what's the difference if you're a bit older with degeneration. We'll talk about the fairness of that. Our panellists' impressions of the GCSB legislation, the TCIS bill, and whether cell doors should be locked at night in a mental hospital for serious offenders.